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“Drip, Drip, Drip”
Editor's note: Though winter and spring sports were forced to end early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were still moments of triumph for Crimson athletes. We hope you enjoy this story about the 2020 Ivy League fencing championship, held this …
Football: Harvard 14, Yale 21
You can’t win ’em all. Harvard’s football team proved that adage this past Saturday, losing The Game for the first time in 10 years when it was beaten by fired-up underdog Yale 21-14. The Crimson finished its season at 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy …
Conceptualizing Small
The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, about 100,000 times thinner than the sheet of paper on which these words are printed. If you could shrink to that height, atoms would be from ankle- to …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a narrow, bare-bulb, basement cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years …
Issue: March-April 2002
Harvard Endowment Increases 5.7 Percent to $39.2 Billion
Highlights for fiscal 2018: •The endowment’s value was $39.2 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2018—an increase of $2.1 billion (5.7 percent) from $37.1 billion a year earlier . The gains in the year just ended bring the value of …
The Intellectual Clash Over Final Clubs
Harvard College administrators may not have anticipated the fierce and intensely public debate that would erupt in response to the announcement at the end of April that members of historically male final clubs, Greek organizations, and other off-campus, …
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets a lesson from an old hand. One crisis I was witness to—which reinforces the importance of knowing …
Postseason, Interrupted
On Christmas Eve , the Harvard men’s basketball team dined at Roy’s, in Waikiki, feasting on short ribs and mahi mahi. It had been an extraordinary 48 hours. After arriving in Hawaii with a 3-6 record, the weakest squad in the eight-team Diamond Head …
Issue: May-June 2016
Oldest and First
Donning his Class of ’44 cap that he got at his 25th reunion fifty years ago—a signature wear, loved ones say—Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, led an all-alumni parade past the John Harvard Statue and into Tercentenary Theatre for today’s …
“For Exceptional Service…”
Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards (during the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors’ fall meeting), for their outstanding service to the University. Danguole Spakevicius Altman ’81 of Houston, a member of her class’s thirty-fifth-reunion …
Issue: September-October 2018
A Slim Margin
One evening in mid January, Zena Edosomwan ’17, the star center of Harvard men’s basketball, stood at the free-throw line for what seemed like a low-stakes attempt. Harvard was playing Ryerson, a Canadian team added to the schedule primarily as a tune-up …
Issue: March-April 2016
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Home Games
Seniors Evan Cummins , Agunwa Okolie, and Patrick Steeves have played in some of the biggest games in Harvard men’s basketball history: the program’s first victory in the NCAA tournament (a 68-62 upset of New Mexico in 2013), the near-upset of Michigan …
“Leaving a Legacy”
On a late January Saturday in 2013, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed visiting Dartmouth College by 10 points with just under two minutes to go, and co-captain Christian Webster ’13 thought, “We cannot lose this game.” A loss at home to …
Harvard President Claudine Gay Testifies Before Congress
On October 7 , hours after Hamas’s terroristic assault on Israel, a coalition of more than 30 Harvard student groups released a statement holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The now-infamous letter—and the three …
Football: Harvard 40, Cornell 3
With four minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the first quarter this past Saturday at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, Cornell’s Joe Pierik booted a 33-yard field goal. By jumping ahead 3-0, the Big Red had accomplished what no other opponent had …